Basketball Drills and Basketball Plays | Defensive Playbook by Adam Short

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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September 17, 2013

Defense

I have been very fortunate to work under some great defensive coaches. This playbook is a collection of drills that we have used and drills have I have collected over the past 3 years. The man to man defense in this playbook deals with ball pressure and denying the wings. When using this defense, you want your opponents to be as uncomfortable as possible. You want to apply pressure every single second they are on offense. Communication is key when running this defense as well. In this playbook, you have very basic drills and you have very complex drills. Our defense is taught from the bottom up. You can’t teach this defense without teaching the very basics. Every single drill in this playbook has been used at the youth level all the way to the college level. It has worked at every level. I will be adding more drills to this playbook at time moves on.

Adam Short begins his first year as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Cowley College.

Short grew up in Indiana and was a First-Team All-Conference selection as a senior at Lake Central High School. He went on to attend Joliet (Ill) Junior College and helped the team to a NJCAA Division III national runner-up finish, while being named First-Team All-Conference and a two-time Region 4 Player of the Week.

After Joliet, Short spent his final two years of college basketball playing at NAIA school Avila University in Kansas City, MO. At Avila, he scored more than 1,000 points in his career and earned all-conference honors each year at the school.

He graduated from Avila in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in writing. Short then served as a graduate assistant coach with the Avila men’s basketball team from 2011-2013, and earned a Masters degree in Organizational Development in 2013.

He also spent the past two years working with MoKan Nike Elite Youth Basketball League out of Kansas City, MO. His job duties consisted of coaching, scouting, and breaking down film.